Morgan Stanley will take the lead in arranging the IPO, with Goldman Sachs Group Inc, JPMorgan chase & Co, Barclays Plc and Bank of America Corp will also help with the sale, according to Bloomberg.

In a letter by Zuckerberg filed with the IPO, he highlighted the type of business culture that shareholders would be buying into.

According to a CNN report, he wrote: "We have cultivated a unique culture and management approach that we call the Hacker Way. There's a hacker mantra that you'll hear a lot around Facebook offices: 'Code wins arguments.'"

The IPO has revealed Facebook's inner workings in fine detail. Here are the numbers that make up the familiar social network:

:: 845 million - the number of active users of the site
:: 483 million - the number of these social networkers who log on every day
:: 130 - the average amount of friends per user
:: 250 million - the average number of photos uploaded each day
:: 70 - the number of languages on the site
:: 350 million - the number of active users who access Facebook on a mobile device
:: 900 million - the total number of pages, groups and events on the site
:: 20 million - the number of times people install Facebook apps every day
:: 7 million - the quantity of apps and websites integrated with Facebook
:: 3,000 plus - the number of Facebook employees
:: 1 billion dollars - the profit Facebook made in 2011
:: 3.71 billion dollars - Facebook's revenue in 2011
:: 28.4% - the proportion of Facebook owned by its CEO Mark Zuckerberg

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